ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the three interrelated concerns of this volume: first, to demonstrate the vital role art has played, and will continue to play, in the theorisation of air and atmosphere in the social sciences; second, to develop the notion of elemental lures to describe the sensual and imaginative propositions of aerial, atmospheric and meteorological phenomena; and third, to narrate experiments in the aerosolar arts to trace novel modes of perceiving, moving and imagining (in) the air. After explaining the key concerns of the volume, I introduce the aerosolar arts in greater detail and outline the methods that informed my research and practice. Then, I further expand on the role of art in social scientific approaches to air and atmosphere. After a discussion of art and the elements in feminist approaches to politics and difference, I conclude with an outline of the chapters to come.
